...has anyone noticed how (relatively) quiet the Clinton and Obama teams have been on this? Yes, on the advice of legal counsel no doubt. I am savoring the quiet interlude, and I still have my Robben Island dream foto.
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| VDH - Why FISA-gate is scarier than Watergate |
| 2018-02-08 |
| [Wash Times] The Watergate scandal of 1972-74 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon administration’s attempt to warp the CIA and FBI to cover up an otherwise minor, though illegal, political break-in. In the Iran-Contra affair of 1985-87, the media and liberal activists uncovered wrongdoing by some rogue members of the Reagan government. They warned of government overreach and of using the "Deep State" to subvert the law for political purposes. We are now in the midst of a third great modern scandal. Members of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice sought court approval for the surveillance of Carter Page, allegedly for colluding with Russian interests, and extended the surveillance three times. But none of these government officials told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the warrant requests were based on an unverified dossier that had originated as a hit piece funded in part by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Donald Trump during the current 2016 campaign. Nor did these officials reveal that the author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, had already been dropped as a reliable source by the FBI for leaking to the press. Nor did officials add that a Department of Justice official, Bruce Ohr, had met privately with Steele ‐ or that Mr. Ohr’s wife, Nellie, had been hired to work on the dossier. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 ...has anyone noticed how (relatively) quiet the Clinton and Obama teams have been on this? Yes, on the advice of legal counsel no doubt. I am savoring the quiet interlude, and I still have my Robben Island dream foto. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-08 08:53 |
| #6 #3 Or that Carter Page worked for the FBI... Something REALLY weird is up. Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-02-08 07:48 ..I'm not at all confident that a single one of these ba$tards will ever swing for their crimes, but let me suggest this: has anyone noticed how (relatively) quiet the Clinton and Obama teams have been on this? No ringing denials from the mountaintop? No rallies to support bringing down these falsehood-speaking Republicans? No nothing. With that in mind - is it possible the Trump Administration has quietly put the word out that though we might not be able to get you for this...we know you did it. Keep your mouths shut and behave from here on out, or you may well discover that there are far, far worse things than Federal trial for treason and fraud. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-02-08 08:37 |
| #5 This is an extension of the technique known as 'pretexting'. Pretexting is used when the "law enforcement" people need an excuse for a prosecution, but can't get a legally defendable trail. So they use illegally gained knowledge (from let's say, a wiretap) to feed a source who will send confidential information back to them, allowing a paper trail to begin. They've been doing it for years in drug smuggling arrests. You actually thought a random traffic stop just happened to come up with ten tons of pot? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-02-08 08:32 |
| #4 We are now in the midst of a third great modern scandal. Members of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice sought court approval for the surveillance of Carter Page, allegedly for colluding with Russian interests, and extended the surveillance three times. A hand picked court of nodding nabobs and pisslewinks. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-08 07:53 |
| #3 Or that Carter Page worked for the FBI... Something REALLY weird is up. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-02-08 07:48 |
| #2 The sheer magnitude of FisaGate with all its connections and tentacles is staggering--far larger than Watergate. FisaGate is an existential threat to our Republic and system of justice. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-08 07:43 |
| #1 Not just in USA. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-08 07:03 |